• The Lipstick Project*

    Donald P Corbett Bldg UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    Leigh Boyle, whom Mimi Killinger has worked to bring to UMaine and local high schools, is founder of an organization that goes to the heart of the humanistic endeavor. The Lipstick Project (named for the story of a crate of lipstick that mysteriously appeared during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp) provides free, professional […]

  • 15th Annual POETS/SPEAK!*

    Bangor Public Library 145 Harlow St., Bangor, ME, United States

    The 15th Annual POETS/SPEAK! event on Thursday, April 27 at the Bangor Public Library in celebration of National Poetry Month. Our 15th anniversary event celebrates “Origins: Roots & Sources” in conjunction with the […]

  • Pre-performance talk: Richard Brucher on Hedda Gabler*

    Bodwell Lounge, Collins Center for the Arts 2 Flagstaff Rd., Orono, ME, United States

    Richard Brucher Come listen to UMaine English Professor Richard Brucher discuss the brilliance of Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece Hedda Gabler. Brucher will examine the various problems of interpretation posed by the play, particularly regarding Hedda’s acerbic, malicious, and principled resistance to stifling social, moral, and economic conventions. Although attracted to a bohemian life, she has married down […]

  • Explore Maine History with Maine-Wabanaki REACH and UMaine Art Education Students*

    Lord Hall, room 202 UMaine, Orono, ME, United States

    Join Maine-Wabanaki REACH and UMaine Art Education Students for an interactive story-telling event. We will be exploring events in the shared history of Europeans and their descendants and Wabanaki people. Participation is limited to a maximum of 30. To enroll, you must RSVP by April 26th to Constant Albertson at constant@maine.edu. First come, first serve, and […]

  • FLOW Fort Knox

    Fort Knox 740 Ft Knox Rd., Prospect, ME, United States

    FLOW Fort Knox – Art • Water • Energy • History • Ecology Mind-blowingly innovative New Media artist Gene Felice will join with a transdisciplinary array of artists, scientists, historians […]

  • The Poetry & Poetics of the 1990s

    University of Maine Wells Conference Center, Stevens Hall, North Stevens Hall, The Union, Folger Library, and The Page Farm Museum, Orono, ME, United States

    The National Poetry Foundation (NPF) is hosting the last in their sequence of “decade” conferences, this one focused on the 1990s, American and international. The conference, The Poetry & Poetics of the […]

  • Jerusalem: From Antiquity to the Present 

    Bangor Room, Memorial Union Orono, ME, United States

    Part of the Marxist-Socialist Studies Controversies Series, co-sponsored by Judaic Studies and the Jewish Community Endowment Associates.  Roger Brooks, Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, Connecticut College, and President of Facing History and Ourselves, working to […]

  • Faculty Jazz Concert

    Minsky Recital Hall Collins Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States

      Featuring Dan Barrett, Mark Tipton & David Wells Free and open to the public Sponsored By: School of Performing Arts Contact: Alan Berry, richard.berry@maine.edu

  • Experience Fort George in Castine: Mixed Allegiances lecture

    Maine Maritime Academy 1954 Room, MMA, 1 Pleasant St., Castine, ME, United States

    "Mixed Allegiances" is a lecture by Dr. Liam Riordan, former Center director. The lecture is part of the two day weekend event, Experience Fort George in Castine, running form 8am-9pm Saturday […]